性别：男

　　出生：1944年3月23日

　　星座： 白羊座

　　国籍：英国

　　很多人都是从那部《The Piano》的配乐开始了解即而喜爱上了Michael Nyman，《The Piano》中虽然也有弦乐，主角是钢琴，毕竟故事是以钢琴及其女主人公展开，弦乐方面相对弱了许多，但这也不是最主要的。虽然这张OST在当年卖出了几百万张的天文数字，但却在争夺奥斯卡最佳配乐奖时输给了John Williams的《辛德勒的名单》。这张OST中的音乐《The Promise》4年后被王菲的一首经典歌曲《暗涌》所用，只是曲作者竟然成了陈辉阳。

　　1978年10月，他在乐评里首次将简约主义(Minimalism)应用于音乐上。 后来迈克尔·尼曼遇到了他以后的好朋友兼老搭档Peter Greenaway，两人首次合作是1978年的《1-100》。Peter Greenaway后来的作品，诸如《The Draughtsmanu2019s Contract》（绘画师的合同），《动物园》，《Drowning By Numbers》(挨个淹死)，《厨师、大盗、他的妻子和她的情人》及《普罗斯佩罗的魔典》也都与其合作。 除了Peter Greenaway之外，和他合作过的导演还有Robert Young、Patrice Lecotne、Jane Campion、Diane Kurys、Neil Jordan、Michael Winterbotton等。

　　1999年，Michael Nyman与Blur的主音歌手Damon Albarn联手打造了一张电影原声专辑《Ravenous》（贪婪）。电影本身好看与否暂且不论，但专辑确实是红了一把，而在配乐当中使用Banjo（一种非洲的乐器）或许就是Michael Nyman的主意，毕竟他在早年曾去罗马尼亚采过风，极擅长汲取各民族的民间音乐。专辑中有许多八十年代早期的老歌，经Michael Nyman重新编排后，一首首平淡无奇的乐曲再次听来会觉得有趣味许多。

　　2000年5月6-7日，Michael Nyman曾访台参加台北国际城市艺术节，带着的是他的Michael Nyman Band。同期赴台演出的有英国的Fantastical voyage科幻喜剧、Le jardin delices的梨园幽梦、韩国的歌舞料理王（Cookinu2019）及加拿大女高音Natalie Choquette。

　　另外，他还出演过:情欲九歌 9 Songs (2004)和Colonna sonora (1992)。

　　RotoVision书局于2000年出版《film music screencraft》，书里有关于Michael Nyman的详细介绍，还有其他的一些著名配乐大师也列在其中。

　　音乐创作：电影、电视和电视游戏

　　5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)

　　Goole by Numbers (1976)

　　Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)

　　Tom Phillips (1977)

　　A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)

　　Vertical Features Remake (1978)

　　1-100 (1978)

　　The Falls (1980)

　　Act of God (1980)

　　Terence Conran (1981)

　　The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)

　　Brimstone & Treacle (1982) (collaboration with Sting)

　　Nelly’s Version (1983)

　　The Coastline (1983)

　　Making a Splash (1984)

　　The Cold Room (1984)

　　Fairly Secret Army (1984)

　　A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

　　The Kiss (1985)

　　L’Ange frénétique (1985)

　　Ballet mécanique (1986 score; 1921 film)

　　I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump (1986)

　　The Disputation (1986)

　　Le Miraculé (1987)

　　The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987)

　　Fear of Drowning (1988)

　　Death in the Seine (1988)

　　Drowning by Numbers (1988)

　　Out of the Ruins (1989)

　　Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)

　　Monsieur Hire (1989)

　　The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

　　Men of Steel (1990)

　　Les Enfants volants (1990)

　　The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990)

　　Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch (1991)

　　Prospero’s Books (1991)

　　The Fall of Icarus (1992)

　　The Final Score (1992)

　　The Piano (1993)

　　Mesmer (1994)

　　à la folie (1994)

　　Anne No Nikki (Japanese anime adaption of The Diary of Anne Frank) (1995)

　　Carrington (1995)

　　The Ogre (1996)

　　Enemy Zero (1996)

　　Anzar (1997)

　　The Other Side

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　　Gattaca (1997)

　　Titch (1998)

　　Practical Magic (1998) (unused score; 2 cuts made it onto early soundtrack pressings)

　　Ravenous (1999) (collaboration with Damon Albarn)

　　Wonderland (1999)

　　Nabbie’s Love (1999)

　　The End of the Affair (1999)

　　Act Without Words I (2000)

　　The Claim (2000)

　　Man with a Movie Camera (1929 film; 2001 score)

　　Subterrain (2001)

　　Haute fidélité (2001)

　　24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2001)

　　The Actors (2003)

　　Nathalie... (2003)

　　Luminal (2004)

　　The Libertine (2004)

　　Jestem (2005)

　　A Cock and Bull Story (2006) (original arrangement of George Frideric Handel’s "Sarabande"; re-used recordings from The Draughtsman’s Contract)

　　Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (2007)

　　Nyman’s "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (from The Piano) was used as backing music for one of the bank advertisements for Lloyds TSB broadcast on television. It has also been featured in episodes of 20/20.

　　"Sheep & Tides" (from Drowning by Numbers) was featured in a commercial in which a woman smashes a man’s car.

　　Music from Ravenous has been used at least once on WFYI’s Across Indiana, in a segment titled "On the Trail of John Hunt Morgan", produced by Scott Andrew Hutchins.

　　A Cock and Bull Story contains music from The Draughtsman’s Contract, as well as Nyman’s arrangements of classical music used in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (it does not use any music from Nyman’s Tristram Shandy opera).

　　Nyman’s music for Peter Greenaway’s films has been used in the Japanese television program Iron Chef.

　　Popular "Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds" (from The Draughtsman’s Contract) constituted the main theme of Spanish TV program Queremos Saber, presented by Mercedes Milà in the nineties.

　　Nyman features in ’Nine Songs’ (Michaeil Winterbottom, 2004) playing at the Royal Albert Hall.

　　Nyman’s MGV: Musique à grande vitesse was used in November 2006 for a new 1-act ballet for the Royal Ballet in London, DGV (danse à grande vitesse) by Christopher Wheeldon.

　　Nyman’s "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" was covered by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Nyman refused it to be released.